[bug #62691] [troff] character translations should be associated with the environment

[G. Branden Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #62691 (project groff):


[comment #2 comment #2:]
> Would this be a new .tr-like request that would define per-environment
character translations, or are you looking to alter the behavior of the
existing (three) .tr(s)?  'Cause I can see how someone might be dismayed by
the results in your example, but I can also see how someone might want the
translation to be global.  Consider a user who finds \[oq] and \[cq] both
clunky to type and ugly in text, and also knows they'll never use curly braces
in their document.  They'd likely want a mapping of the latter to the former
to apply everywhere.
> 
> 
> .tr {\[oq]}\[cq]
> .ev title
> .tl ''The {header}''
> .ev
> This is in {single quotes.}
> 

It is a distinction I am considering creating.  `char` mappings would be
global, `tr` mappings would be per-environment.


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